HSC Research
The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center complex consists of the Health Sciences Building (housing the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Dentistry). Ruby Memorial Hospital, the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, the Physicians Office Center, Chestnut Ridge Psychiatric Hospital and the Rehabilitation Clinic. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Health and Safety (ALOSH) is located adjacent to the Health Sciences Center complex.
West Virginia University is doctoral extensive and it is ranked in the highest tier of national doctoral research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. West Virginia University is the state’s flagship institution for both research and patient care. This creates an ideal setting for advancing scientific frontiers and improving healthcare.
The School of Medicine currently has established areas of primary research focus in: cardiovascular and renal, neurosciences, occupational and environmental health, and oncology. The School continues to acknowledge, and to value, strong and well-funded research programs in various areas which may not relate closely to these listed foci.
Approximately 70 percent of the funded projects are in the basic science departments, with the balance in clinical science departments. Funded research in the School of Medicine has grown to almost $25 M for FY 2005-06.
A new $8M Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute facility has been approved for construction (approval in 12-99). This institute will result in hiring additional internationally recognized research faculty in Neuroscience and aging. The new state of the art research building to house this institute is expected to be completed in 2006.
The University supports, and is supported by, numerous institutes for interdisciplinary studies and research: the National Research Center for Coal and Energy, the Regional Research Institute, the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, the Center on Aging, the Institute for Public Affairs, the Center for Women's Studies and Research, the Center for Economic Research, the Harley O. Staggers National Transportation Center, the Concurrent Engineering Research Center, the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, the Constructed Facilities Center, and others.
More information about the research conducted at WVU and the Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center can be found at the following address: http://www.wvu.edu/~research/.
The Ph.D. Program in Exercise Physiology, School of Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center offers students with strong backgrounds in the biological sciences the opportunity to study and carry out research with a talented faculty in the Division of Exercise Physiology conducting vigorous nationally funded research programs that use human and/or animal models to address issues of exercise and overload in diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, nutrition, muscle damage/regeneration and aging induced muscle sarcopenia. For additional information on the research programs and faculty research interests and expertise see Exercise Physiology graduate faculty and their research interests.